Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] [adj] [noun pl] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have never given the Olympic Games a thought I am just plodding my way through the season , racing here and there , ’ he said . |
| 2 | But a senior Kuwait delegate claimed his country had offered the other ministers a compromise on the tough quota demands it made when the meeting started but said the proposal were rejected . |
| 3 | ‘ You would n't believe the number of times I 've offered the beastly things a sugar lump and been nipped like billyo in return . ’ |
| 4 | It is no use telling a man who has received a thousand pounds a year in giro cheques that he has the means to better himself . |
| 5 | The Macleod Report of 1965 had set the Young Conservatives a target of a quarter of a million members , and it had declared the importance of political involvement . |
| 6 | As a result of his intervention , the Chambers of Mr S. C. Stamler QC have covenanted a thousand pounds a year to the Law Library ‘ for the foreseeable future ’ . |
| 7 | As for Selene , she was left a hundred pounds a year so long as she continued under her sister 's direction . |
| 8 | This is true of the Great Little Trains with Bala lake apparently very badly hit , the Ffestiniog being quiet and the same can be said of the V of R in Aberystwyth where for most of June early July just 4 coaches serviced the two trains a day up the valley . |
| 9 | He had taught the bird to pronounce the name of his lost love , and this name was repeated a hundred times a day . |
| 10 | The teachers are all on strike , hardly surprising when they 're only paid a hundred dollars a month , so all Alejandro 's kids are at home getting under their mother 's feet . ’ |
| 11 | Is this man being paid a million dollars a year for a driving technique which is dispensed by every BSM instructor ? |